Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W46

“I do feel kind of robbed, and one of the books that I started reading but I haven't gotten too far into it is called Stolen Focus. Have you heard about this book? It's by, I think, he's a journalist named Johann Hari?”

“I think he has lots of other fancy titles, but I really, really appreciate the person, and he sent me his latest book to endorse, and this book is called Uncovering Your Path. I started reading it the way I honestly read most books that I'm asked to endorse, which is like trying to read it at the equivalent of”

“I think this is what Emil Durkheim wrote about in his book Suicide, where he talks about the concept of anomie, where people that experience the death of their worldview either learn to accept it or they don't accept it, and this is the result when you don't accept it.”

“So apparently, have you seen that movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats? I read the book a long time ago.”

“I always like to say this, too, when talking about aliens: Annie Jacobson wrote this crazy book where she interviewed a guy from Area 51, some high-up guy. He said back in the 50s or 60s, I think it was the 60s, our government was taking severely autistic children and mutating them to look like extraterrestrials to scare the Soviets.”

“You start the book, you start Nexus with something you call, I think, I'm paraphrasing here, the naive view or naive theory of information.”

“Yeah, maybe I’ve got to read Chase Jarvis’s book. There’s a book I’ve got to read; I can’t go to this thing.”

“One of the other things I saw, um, there's a book called The Economical Housewife from the 1850s that it might be the first recipe for dandelion wine, and people still make that today.”

“Um, I mean, it's definitely a thing; Ray Bradbury had a novel called Dandelion Wine from 1957, so it's something that's been enjoyed all over the world.”

“Well, the ones that came with uranium, uh, they had, you know, booklets; one was called Prospecting for Uranium! Uh, that, that taught you how to mine a radioactive ore!”

“I've always wanted to write in, but just hadn't found the right topic until the 'It' stranger things script retooling debate during emojis. Stephen King is by far my favorite author and it is my absolute favorite of his novels! Highly recommend!”

“Uh, James Schneider writes in his book Gorilla Leader, he discovered then the reality in modern war that the civilian population will always suffer when a European power pursues its national interests without regard to the culture and political aspirations of the native populace.”

“I want to quote now from a book called Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr. At the Times Valette, Cho believed that the Sultan's power as Khalif gave him a disturbing and disruptive political influence worldwide.”

“Um, in the wonderful book The Young T.E. Lawrence, biographer Anthony Satin writes that Lawrence and his four brothers never, quote, 'had an unhappy or even an unsettled life.'”

“That could be good; I still have to finish A Little Life. That’s a hard one!”

“In terms of what I would like to see Democratic politicians repudiate, I’m literally talking my book. I have a book coming out in March called 'Abundance.'”

“It's like, like that one thing I loved about your book was how you gave examples of what I would call stoic fables, like literal descriptions of what it would be good to do.”

“I mean I love Larry Becker's work and new stoicism, you know, that was new and convincing to people who never would, you know, some people just don't have a taste for ancient philosophy and that was convincing to a lot of philosophers who have never picked up something translated.”

“Uh, and he got these recordings a few years back when he was interviewing Epstein about the subject of a book he wrote called Fire and Fury.”

“You can look at George Grant, who I think is one of Canada's greatest political authors and public commentators, who started off supporting the CCF and the NDP but quickly realized this was not the brand he wanted to get behind and became a big supporter of Dean Baker. He wrote his famous book 'Lament for a Nation' in the”

“The start of the system begins with the British North America Act, which effectively is the base of our constitution in Canada now. It was established by an act of the legislature parliament in London, England, in 1867, and it sets out the framework that the political structure of Canada hangs on.”

“It also increases this concept from Leopold's essay called 'unhobbling', where models are hobbled and then trained to be unhobble.”